Thursday, December 21, 2017

This mini-set comes from the two nice almost acoustic Pearl Jam sets at Bridge School Benefit concerts of 2014. Music is audience audio. This "Hunger Strike" by whole original Temple Of The Dog band members seems to be one of the final ones, if not the final, alas.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

This is live compilation of the debut Pearl Jam album "Ten" and it's numerous outtakes. Great energy, long jams and mad crowd - it makes Ten Live sound very different. Feel the power of young Eddie's voice early songs, listen to the first ever performance of Mommason Trilogy mini-opera in 1992 Zurich with Eddie's introduction (in full-stereo quality). Enjoy improvisational jams in "Porch" and "Even Flow".

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Vs. is all about rage and anger. Vs. Live is even more energetic than the album and it's really amazing, because the band in it's maturity age is able to perform like they still have to prove themselves. They charge, they put pressure. And they have experience now.
Vs. Live is packed with loud singalongs and improv. jams and tags. It's always difficult to choose the best Rearviewmirror jam, but this one is really great. W.M.A. represents re-arranged "tribal" version. Leash is with extended final solo and Indifference is now without Ben Harper (as you may find good duet performance in 2009 Australian tour compilation).

Go

Animal

Daughter (It's Ok)

Glorified G

Dissident

W.M.A. (reworked "tribal" version)

Blood

Rats

Rearviewmirror

(Improv) Small Town

Leash

Hard To Imagine

Bee Girl (Ed & Jeff)

Indifference

Updated to ver. 2.01 (2017-11-08): Fixed "dual mono" bug which made some players play some songs as mono; changed mp3 tags; some minor tweaks.
Updated to ver. 2.00 (2011-06-22): Replaced Glorified G, Leash, Indifference; changed songs order; various changes and tweaks to almost every file.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

In 2012 Pearl Jam returned to Europe. They toured in Britain, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Benilux and Scandinavian countries, and in autumn they gave four shows in USA. Pearl Jam performed couple of new songs and some rarities like Hitchhiker as well. Also this compilation includes alternated old hits and great loud moments.

Friday, May 6, 2016

Mike McCready gathered his Seattle friends to reunite prominent super-groups of the past in which he took part: Mad Season and Temple Of The Dog. They played at famous Benaroya Hall supported by Seattle symphonic orchestra. Opening the show Mike performed his new instrumental song "Waking The Horizon".

This is an audience HD multi-camera edited video of the entire show. Audio is sound-board. Blu-Ray as ISO mixed and encoded by Better Than Nothing Videos. Artwork and primary video footage provided by Monkeewrench. High quality 480p mp4 video ripped from Blu-Ray with generous permission by Better Than Nothing.

Set:
1. Waking The Horizon - by the Seattle Symphony featuring Mike McCready and Matt Cameron
2. Long Gone Day - by the Seattle Symphony and Chris Cornell, Barrett Martin, Mike McCready, Duff McKagan and Skerik
3. River Of Deceit - by the Seattle Symphony and Chris Cornell, Barrett Martin, Mike McCready and Duff McKagan
4. I Don't Know Anything - by the Seattle Symphony and Chris Cornell, Barrett Martin, Mike McCready and Duff McKagan (*)
5. Wake Up - by Kim Virant, Barrett Martin, Mike McCready, Duff McKagan and Matt Cameron
6. Lifeless Dead - by Jeff Angell, Barrett Martin, Mike McCready, Duff McKagan and Matt Cameron
7. I'm Above - by Jeff Angell, Kim Virant, Barrett Martin, Mike McCready, Duff McKagan and Tim DiJulio
8. Call Me A Dog - Temple of the Dog
9. Reach Down - Temple of the Dog
10. All Alone - by Mike McCready, Barrett Martin, Sean Kinney, Duff McKagan, Matt Cameron, recorded vocals by Layne Staley
* - Note, it appears that the end solo of "I Don't Know Anything" was re-recorded prior to the release of the album. The solo on the final release does not match the video recordings
of the show. Presumably this was due to a technical issue. The result is the solo appears to be out of sync during the closing moments of the song.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

In 2011 at PJ20 festival Pearl Jam played some rarest songs from their Temple Of The Dog tribute. "It Happened Today" is R.E.M. song from their last and final album and Pearl Jam performed it at the sad date of R.E.M. cancellation announcement.

Thursday, August 6, 2015

In 2011 Pearl Jam visited more new countries in South America: Peru and Costa Rica. All shows were sold-out and the band enjoed even greater support than in 2005. 'Ole' chant after "Black" in Buenos Aires was the longest and loudest ever in the history of Pearl Jam live shows, and Eddie had to say that next time the band would pay instead of spectators.

Sunday, July 19, 2015

No Code sounds really different live. There is plenty of alterations in songs. In My Tree is "Spanish-like" hugely reworked intense 2006 version with short Boom Gaspar's improv solo in the middle. Off He Goes live is now always played with Mike's multiple solos. Lukin is powered with loud audience vocal help and there is a special slow performance (Lukin II) placed in bonus. Red Mosquito is performed with Ben Harper on lap steel guitar. Also it's always not easy to choose the best version of Long Road because many fine performances are plagued with Eddie's vocal difficulties. I selected this version (from 2005 Porto Alegre, Brazil), because I really love how it sounds with Stone tuning his guitar softer. I Got Id is great old version with different solo from Mike that can't be rivaled by modern performances.

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

After PJ20 Festival Pearl Jam embarked on a World tour starting it with Canadian shows. They presented live all new song "Ole" and never played before "In The Moonlight" from Binaural sessions. The R.E.M. song "It Happened Today" was dedicated to this magnificent rock band and was performed on a day when R.E.M. announced it's break up, 'calling it a day as a band'. On the other hand, a moment of fun is "Running Back To Saskatoon" song played in Saskatoon and represented in two takes as Eddie forgot the chorus and restarted the song later in that show with the help of the local fan Brian as a lead vocalist. "Rockin' In The Free World" is the longest variant performed in Toronto with the surprise appearance of Neil Young with Mike McCready's guitar jamming on and on and on.

Monday, April 13, 2015

Yield is one of the best Pearl Jam albums. Songs from Yield are often played live, and in 2013 Milwaukee the band performed the whole album live in it's entity. "Leatherman" and "U" are really nice outtakes.

This is an updated live compilation (2015-04-12), major update: some songs replaced, almost all files reworked, new tags added.

Friday, February 27, 2015

On the tour of 1998 supporting their magnificent and controversial album "Adore" The Smashing Pumpkins enjoyed the most expansive line-up in their history. The tour was entitled "An Evening with The Smashing Pumpkins" and the line-up was: Billy Corgan (lead vocals, guitar), James Iha (guitar), D'arcy Wretzky (bass guitar), Kenny Aronoff (drums), Steven Hodges (percussion) and David Bowie's pianist Mike Garson playing great piano imrovs which had become the most special moments of the tour. Show at Atlanta was packed with altered and rearranged songs and improvs, and considered as one of the most special and amazing Smashing Pumpkins live performances.